NO Addons please. There is another solution!

The bottom line is this. If you don't use addons, they won't effect you. There are those of us who are power gamers and would like to have more features that the current UI lacks. If you want to use them, then that's fine. If not then that is fine as well. Ultimately it's up to Bioware if they want to take this on. People think that the Dev's can just snap their fingers by adding mod support for their game. The main reason to not add this support is security, hacks, bots, etc all being more easy to write a mod or addon to do so. It's a constant battle to make sure that someone doesn't take advantage of the addon system to hack the game.

I love how people feel like they are incapable of learning how to play their character effectively without some type of add-on. Poor little scrubs can't live without their crutch. I wonder how some of you managed to raid back in the day before add-ons...oh wait you didn't as most of you had EZ mode WoW as your first MMO.

It's one thing to have a parser FOR YOURSELF to manage your rotation, but other than that, most add-ons were a joke and nothing more than a crutch for bad players to judge other bad players.

Oh, it’s just dysgenics all over again and an example of what occurs in schools and the voting public around the world. We intentionally create societies and communities where the smart people can’t breed and ruin the fun for everyone else. *Shrugs*

Please, no addons that will influence combat and force Bioware to design based around the "required" addon flavor-of-the-day.

Graphical and UI customize - yes pls, but only Bioware sanctioned and developed. Keep third party out.

My vote anyway, if they are watching and listening.

i really still don't get this obsession with add-ons. it sounds like a WoW invention, and something the WoW players want. this isn't WoW. this is swtor. bioware promised that swtor would be different from all the other mmo's, and so far, they delivered on their promises. if all the WoW people want to keep up the comparison crap, maybe they should go back to it, and let the rest of us have a good time. so far, the non-avatar people are in the lead in negative campaigning against this game. shame on them for playing it, and then gripe, gripe, griping on it. shut it. really. shut it. it's not there, it would be a copy-right problem to add something from another mmo. let it go. talk about it, but quit insisting it must be there. it just plain won't.

if some are going to just complain, they shouldn't play. it's not bioware's job to curtail the game for a limmited few to their liking. people can make a suggestion in a suggestion box, but coming on the forum for the sole purpose of complaining is not right. no logic to it whatsoever. so stop if it's that bad a time for some people.

What's with this "Have fun my way or don't have fun at all" mentality going around? If you don't want to use addons... don't. That doesn't mean Bioware shouldn't ever allow them.

I honestly can't see any actual negative impact to allowing players to have more UI customization and allowing Bioware to spend less time tweaking the UI and more time adding content or fixing bugs.

you're right. i personally don't care about the add-ons. i'm just tired of people dumping it on others with it must or it sucks mentality. i could care less either way. i don't think comparing swtor to other video games, then dumping on it, is right. it sounds like whining and i can't stand whining, crying, or moping on the game. it's like some are on it just to have something to complain about. they're never happy. i can't stand that kind of game playing mentality. that's all.

Because eventually BW would be forced to design the game around certain add-ons because they become so much of a crutch that bad players just cant live without them and it forces other players to use them because now the content is designed around them. People talk about dungeon finders being bad for a community? Add-ons are much more harmful than a dungeon finder tool.

The UI in this game isn't even bad, work with what you have and get some skill for once. Let BW work with their own design instead of bouncing around constantly and trying to accommodate the next big add-on...

Sometimes I wonder if the SWOTR community is made up of all the bad players who got kicked from their WoW guilds for sucking. "No dps/hps meters! No combat logs! I don't want to be held accountable for my performance! There's a better way, and it includes you ignoring that our most recent wipe was my fault!" This thread is pathetic. If you don't want to use add ons, you don't have to. The very argument that it makes things easier should only mean that you have less reason to use them if you don't want to. The argument defeats itself.